TRW Acquisitions, VCF

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Feb 2 23:10:49 1998

At 07:49 PM 2/2/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net> wrote:
>> I wonder what a "virtual terminal" is?
>
>I'm thinking that the "virtual terminals" are the workspaces.

  Doesn't sound very usefull since two of them can't be connected to the
ports.

>
>> Do you remember how they moved text between windows? Is it a cut and
>> paste operation like MS Windows?
>
>Um, no. As I recall it used the logging function. You set up the
>"to" device to be a workspace and then turn on log top or log bottom.
>E.g. if you turned on log bottom, then as each line was received
>it would be copied (by the terminal) over to the workspace set as
>"to" device, and if that workspace is attached to the other datacomm port
>then the line gets sent out that port.

  Interesting method of passing data, but doesn't sound very easy to use.
For one thing you would have to turn it on BEFORE the data is recieved and
displayed.

>
>So I don't think you can cut-and-paste very easily, but you can set
>the thing up to do simple data logging.

  Yes logging would be easy but selective coping would be a pain!

  Joe
>
>-Frank McConnell
>
Received on Mon Feb 02 1998 - 23:10:49 GMT